Bi the beginnin o the 20t century the toun's population totaled 15,000 fowk, an the annual turnower o its trade enterprises wis equal tae three million rubles. Efter the Rousho-Japanese War o 1904-1905, Nikolsk-Ussuriysky became ane o the maist important commercial an economic centres o the Roushie Far East. In 1913, the ceety rankit fowert efter Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk, an Khabarovsk in terms o population. Enterprises wur established processin agricultural products such as mills, dairies, soap-boilin plants, an tanneries, as well as macaroni an sausage factories an breweries. Brick factories, quarries, an saw-mills wur biggit an aw.

The central pairt o the ceety began tae be biggit up wi twa- an three-story masonry biggins. In 1914, thare wur fowerteen educational institutions, a theater, a circus, an three movie-theaters in Nikolsk-Ussuriysky.

Till the 1980s, the ceety rankit seicont in the krai in population, haein anerlie recently yieldit tae Nakhodka. Ussuriysk is still seicont anerlie tae Vladivostok as a theatrical an heicher-educational centre (it is hame tae the Pedagogical an Agricultural Institutes, an the Heicher Militar Schuil).

The Ussuriysk Drama Theater o the Eastren Militar Destrict is locatit at #31 Sovyetskaya Street. The theater wis foondit in 1937 an is ane o the twa theaters o the Roushie Airmy (the ither is the Central Theater o the Roushie Airmy in Moscow). The theater maintains the militar–patriotic tendency an realistic style.

The Ussuriysk Drama Theater is locatit at #33 Volodarskogo Street. It wis opened in 1937. The theater is o classical tendencies. Plays are stagit baith for adults an childer. The haw can accommodate 428 fowk.

On the central square thare is a monument tae the Red Guards an partisans, who dee'd in the battles at Ussuriysk in Juin 1918. A monument tae Vladimir Lenin is on the Railwey Station Square.

Steam locomotive YeL 629 is set on plinth as a memorial tae three Bolshevik revolutionaries (Lazo, Lutsky, an Sibirtsev) who wur allegitly burned alive bi the White Gairds in its firebox in 1920.

Steam Locomotive YeL 629 in Ussuriysk

The Intercession Kirk at #80A Chicherina St. wis biggit in 1914. It is the anerlie releegious biggin in the krai that haes been kept athoot ony reconstruction syne 1917 an is uised for its oreeginal purpose.

The ceety's main Intercession Kirk. Built in 1914, it is ane o the few kirks in the region tae hae survivit the revolution an Communist periods

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